I'm really surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but Nintendo showed off a PLETHORA of third party games and interviews with third party developers about their excitement for the WiiU.
It's blatantly clear that Nintendo is trying to cater to and suck in the western third parties this gen and they seem to be off to a great start.
The controller does some absolutely awesome things and I am super excited about it. The Zelda tech demo looked beautiful and that's all I could ask for in the graphics department. The instant I bought a PC and realized that not even "next-gen" consoles would ever come near it, I stopped caring about console graphics. They're good for me. =)
I do agree that the Ninten-hate is completely centered around this website. Everywhere else I'm seeing people flip out and super excited about Nintendo's conference, and here everyone is boo-ing it to hell. Yet at the same time, everyone busted a nut yesterday at Sony's conference. I think the issue is just that this site's user base is so Sony-focused that the general viewpoint of the forum posters is going to be biased in that regard.
I think Microsoft really did all they could this E3 as far as announcements go, and I'm super excited about Halo 4 turning into a new trilogy. Sony made a kickass price-point for their Vita, and Nintendo really showed how unique and different the WiiU will be. I think all companies did fine this year.
Since I own a high-end PC-gaming PC, the most important thing to me as a console-owner is what the console can do DIFFERENT and UNIQUE to give me a great experience. If it's just more horse-power, it could never match the brute force quality of the PC, so it's entirely worthless. I want to see unique twists and takes on gaming, and Nintendo is definitely offering that!
